Hop is a new programming language designed for the Web 2.0. It is a higher-order language for programming interactive Web applications such as Web agendas, Web galleries, music players, etc. It can be viewed as a replacement for traditional graphical toolkits and is implemented as a Web server. It features an extensive set of widgets for programming fancy GUIs and an libraries for handling database access, network connections, parsing Wiki documents, and for supporting protocols and formats such as IMAP, iCal, EXIF, ID3, and XML. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This is a major release. Many new linguistics extensions, APIs, new Widgets, and new weblets were added. The client-side compiler is now faster. The Web broker is also faster.